Alexander H. Stephens Quotes

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

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• Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Stocks
  • Plateau

• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  

  William James
  • Real
  • Book
  • Philosophy

• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • World
  • Change
  • Relative

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faithful

• What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Shadow
  • Exist
  • Disappeared

• I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Career
  • Die
  • Mistake

• I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Choices
  • Word
  • Villain

• If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Tree
  • Blue

• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Home
  • Themselves
  • Reactionaries

• I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • State of Israel

• No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Imagine
  • Doubts

• For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Violence
  • Reasons
  • Pragmatic

• I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.

  

  Eva Green
  • Emotional
  • Crying
  • Nightmare

• Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • She
  • Business
  • Success

• Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Firm
  • Obstinate
  • Timid